bill - 4:09 am on Nov 15, 2012 (gmt 0)

Internet Explorer becomes Korean election issue [theregister.co.uk] Presidential candidate promises to kill crypto standard locking nation into IE At the tail end of the 1990s, the Korean government decided in its wisdom to develop a home-grown 128-bit SSL encryption standard to increase security around e-commerce. SEED, as it was known, was then mandated for all online transactions. The only problem with this new system was that it requires users to install Microsoft ActiveX plug-in to work and therefore needs Internet Explorer. The result: a decade-long monopoly for IE as banking, shopping and other transactional sites were optimised specifically and exclusively for the Microsoft browser.